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WWI Innovations Do Now: “The war is going to be won by inventions”

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1 WWI Innovations Do Now: “The war is going to be won by inventions”
British Admiral Jacky Fisher (1915) List several technologies that you use everyday that you think would impact a war. Explain your reasoning for listing each technology. Leimkuhler Productions

2 New Technology World War I was a different war
from any that had ever been fought in human history because of the Industrial Revolution. Advances that had been made to increase manufacturing speed and efficiency were easily transferable to the tools of war. Example: the machine gun 18th and 19th centuries Single-fire Short-range Slow-loading British Vickers Shot 8 rounds/sec Sent bullets up to 2,900 yards Could hold 250 rounds of ammo

3 Technologies used during WWI
Searchlight Barbed wire Trenches Chemicals such as mustard gas Radio Submarines Tanks Aircraft


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